Card of the Week Contest #187: Rainbow Tribal

Welcome to the Card of the Week Contest! To participate in this Contest you'll have to design a card along the contest guidelines and throw it into the arena with other competitors' entries! At the end of each week, a winner will be determined by forum poll. The winner's card will be rendered and featured on the Welcome page, and the winner decides the challenge for the next week's Contest!

With the release of Ixalan, I'm really in a weird tribal mood right now, what with monowhite Vampires and monogreen Merfolk casually running around. So this week's challenge is to create a creature card that takes a tribe of creatures into a color you don't usually see them in.

Note: It is not forbidden for the creature type to have appeared in the color of your choice ever, the challenge only cares about the tribe's "typical" colors. Also colorless is not a color. ~Daij_Djan

To increase your chances of winning and to also make creating the poll easier on whomever is doing so, please try to use a render.
Additionally, please try to keep your entry edits all in one post - if you need to change it you can put your old entry in a spoiler marked "Old entry" and leave the newest rendition to be seen. Just use the edit button in the bottom/right of your original post.

And now, time to begin the challenge!

Best of luck, competitors!

Mon, 2017-09-25 15:26

Korakhos

Mon, 2017-09-25 16:34

BurningCreator

We have seen them firstly in black, then in red and, in the end, in white. Where we see them next? In blue?

As soon as I read this week's challenge, this popped into my head, fully-formed:

Noggle Heretic
Creature--Noggle Cleric : Target player gains control of target permanent he or she owns.“I seek to undo all the damage my misguided brethren constantly cause. That I’m doomed to fail is both my punishment, and my penance.”
2/3

@sdfkjgh: The challenge is only restricted to colors "..you don't usually see them in.." (quote), so they might have shown up within the color before

EDIT: Also, I guess I'm going with an older design for this challenge:

Mon, 2017-09-25 19:02

kinotherapy

@sdfkjgh: OP mentioned monowhite Vampires, which are new despite there having been a number of white-black vampires in the past, so I reckon monoblue Vampires is fine aswell.

Awakened Vegetation
Creature - Plant Zombie
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target land card from your graveyard to your hand. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Awakened Vegetation.
When Awakened Vegetation is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
2/2

... or at least I hope so, otherwise my entry is invalid aswell :x

Mon, 2017-09-25 20:04

Wapulatus

@ Everyone

All of the entries are valid as-is. You can do stuff like Red Zombies, in spite of Hour of Devastation, since most Zombie cards printed are black (I.E., it doesn't have to be something we haven't seen before, just something out of the ordinary).

@Malsey: You have chosen possibly the most absurdly convoluted and game-breaking way of executing on that concept, and it doesn't even work. Firstly, if I were to hack this wording into anything that has even the slightest chance of meaning anything, it wouldn't negate the first cast, because the spell would still have to be cast in order to get turned into the weird uncast state it's trying to produce. Secondly, it has zero chance of working properly with nonpermanent spells.

Looking for art led be to the above picture, so I decided to tie it back to Portal: Three Kingdoms and give the Yellow Scarves, an actual rebellion, the rebel creature type. And mechanically I mixed the standard rebel searching mechanic with [card]Sneak Attack

. Part of me wants to let you search for a Rebel and make it a rare, but that feels like it is a bit too abusable.

Tue, 2017-09-26 04:30

Quazer Flame

Outdated

Keeper of the Threshold
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vigilance
Pay 6 life: Until the end of your next turn, target player other than you can’t lose the game, and that player’s opponents can’t win the game.
6/6

A white demon! A cookie to the first person to identify what the only other white demon card in MTG is!

Does this guy still feel like a demon?

Tue, 2017-09-26 05:13

Malsey

@Quazer Flame does Butcher of the Horde count even though it's also black and red?

I forget how to eat sometimes and I lay in bed dying and making MSE sets.
neighbor
yeet

Tue, 2017-09-26 05:32

Quazer Flame

Not an entry

Tue, 2017-09-26 13:02

Mahx Michael

@digiman619
Please forgive me, but what about this card isn't 100% red?

... Ah, "Rebel" I guess. Somehow, it still makes compleatly sense to make a red rebel...

I forget how to eat sometimes and I lay in bed dying and making MSE sets.
neighbor
yeet

Wed, 2017-09-27 22:37

Aarhg

Watcher of Vyrenfall
Creature - Wolf Spirit
Whenever Watcher of Vyrenfall blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, tap that creature and it doesn’t untap during its controller’s next untap step.Its subduing gaze keeps the sacred springs of Vyrenfall free from trespassers.
1/3

Sun, 2017-10-01 19:04

Vunik

Not an Entry

Imteria, Vilewood Stalker
Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman
Lifelink, menace
Whenever a creature dealt damage by CARDNAME this turn dies, you may pay . If you do, return it to the battlefield under your control.
3/3

Vronos was an inquisitor on Innistrad whose spark ignited when he was attacked by a pack of werewolves. He ended up on Alara and studied with the Vedalken Ethersworn, repairing his face with etherium and making himself a mask of the same. Afterwards, he returned to Innistrad, where Avacyn tasked him with tracking Garruk so she could heal him of the Chain Veil's curse. However, Vronos died fighting Garruk because his fighting experience was mostly with evil beasts—not people that can summon an endless supply of evil beasts while wielding a massive axe.

@Quazer: Love this. However, I think it should probably have lifelink, or something similar to extort, instead of vigilance. Keeping players alive that others have worked hard to kill is likely to draw a fat target on your face, and paying 6 life every turn cycle will severely expedite your death. Plus, where's the need to go on the offensive when you have an undead player under your control? Sit back, relax, and make them do the hard work for you!

@Vunik: I see no mechanical reason for Imteria to be green. She's potentially more cost-efficient than she could be in mono-black, but her only green ability is lifelink...which is also black. [Edit: I shouldn't write at 4 AM. Lifelink isn't even green. Lifegain is, but the only green creatures with lifelink all require other colors in one way or another. Imteria actually has no green abilities.] Also, vampires are usually black, and green has its fair share of shamans, so even if she were mechanically green, I'm not sure how well she fits the challenge.

"Ellipsis" for short?

Thu, 2017-09-28 14:22

Yoshi

Community Award

Sigiled Weaver
Creature - Spider
Exalted, reach, vigilance
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, tap up to two target creatures. Creatures with flying tapped this way don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
2/5

December 2017 - R32 - "We are more than just rank and file..."
February 2018 - DDH - "Remember that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer."

Why is planswalkers now legendray: Are there rule changes to how they play now. Can you have more jace's now?

Thu, 2017-09-28 20:00

Aarhg

Yep, you can have different Jaces in play at the same time now.

Thu, 2017-09-28 22:55

Atreoss

Spoiler:

Sat, 2017-09-30 12:54

Gateways7

I figured that the three things that make treefolk treefolk were lands and large toughness, I could do that in a more white way while adding the white element of lifegain that also shows up on a couple of Treefolk cards.

@Pixi: better templating would be "create X blue 5/5 Serpent creature tokens, where X is half the number of Islands you control, rounded down." Also, yes, Virginia, you can now have multiple Jaces on the field, so long as they have different names. That's exactly why they made the change. Well, that and to consolidate the rules for both legendary permanents & planeswalkers.

@Pixi: This should be worded "X (whatever) tokens, where X is half the number of Islands you control"

@Sylph: Blue gets colorless mana dorks, especially with drawbacks, as with Innistrad allstar Deranged Assistant. They don't get mana dorks with haste, though. Why not make this a tap ability?

@Zephyr: How often are enchantments targeted?

[center]"It's exciting to create something that demonstrates how clever you are, that you pushed in a direction that players didn't anticipate. The problem is that the point of game design isn't to be clever, it's to create a great game." --Mark Rosewater

Fri, 2017-09-29 04:03

Celebi

I'll go with a mono-blue vampire also, hope you like it:

Revered as a guardian of the forest, Celebi appears wherever beautiful forests exist.

Fri, 2017-09-29 05:25

Ziolang

What's with all the colorles entries when the contest specifies it being "in a color"? Colorless isn't a color, folks.

@jacqui-pup - I was thinking it would be used to deal with things like Oblivion Ring, Chaos Warp, and more widespread removal in general, as well as being a limited finisher in an enchantment creature heavy meta. Without the last part I can see how this would be a lot more situational. That said...

@Ziolang - They're all poitnle'mrakullessy made in a certain Eldrazi's name, but you're right, they're illegal.

Petalweaver Sidhe
Creature - Angel
Vigilance
Whenever a Plains enters the battlefield under your control, you may have ~ gain +1/+1 and flying until end of turn.
3/3"She is the mother of all hatchlings, guiding them with wings fashioned from the faintest sun-blessed grass." - Sh'vai Dro'ka

@... You have a great point. Updating my entry. Also, someone replied to my original entry, so I can't edit the post -_-

Keeper of the Threshold 3
Legendary Creature - Demon
Lifelink
Pay 6 life: Until the end of your next turn, target player other than you can’t lose the game, and that player’s opponents can’t win the game.
6/6

[center]"It's exciting to create something that demonstrates how clever you are, that you pushed in a direction that players didn't anticipate. The problem is that the point of game design isn't to be clever, it's to create a great game." --Mark Rosewater

Fri, 2017-09-29 21:31

digiman619

@angel666: You do know there are threemono-blackAngels, right? The middle one was even reprinted recently (admitedly as an invocation in Amonkhet, but still). Admittedly, every other black Angel is a multicolor with white (and occasionally other colors), but the point is that monoblack Angels are a thing.

Fri, 2017-09-29 21:55

marioware2

Head Administrator

Hey, everyone! I'd like to point out that the challenge says to make a creature in a color we don't USUALLY see them in. This means that all of the non-colorless entries so far are totally fine, even if there's already a creature of that type in that color!